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Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:30:11 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Links for January 2013 | idiolecthttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/06/psychology-narrowing-its-own-mind/#comment-47661
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:18:35 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-47661[…] Vaughan summarises Paul Rozin’s list of 7 types of descriptive study which are undervalued by … […]
]]>By: Wednesday Round Up #115 « Neuroanthropologyhttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/06/psychology-narrowing-its-own-mind/#comment-8800
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:19:05 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-8800[…] add that ethnography is a fundamental way to begin that descriptive work.) For commentary, see Mind Hacks and Culture & […]
]]>By: Alex Holcombehttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/06/psychology-narrowing-its-own-mind/#comment-8763
Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:51:33 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-8763I find Rozin’s article
“Domain Denigration and Process
Preference in Academic Psychology”
also in Perspectives On Psychological Science, to be an equally interesting meta-discussion of the idiosyncratic and tradition-bound ways psychology is done.
]]>By: A surprising romantic reappearance « Mind Hackshttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/06/psychology-narrowing-its-own-mind/#comment-8709
Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:04:02 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-8709[…] readers will remmeber our report of Paul Rozin’s call for more observational reports in psychology. Perhaps he’d approve of this 2003 paper in Nature: Adult persistence of head-turning […]
]]>By: Tomhttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/06/psychology-narrowing-its-own-mind/#comment-8705
Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:18:05 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-8705I have a lot of sympathy for Rozin’s point. However, one problem with anything other than theory guided ‘microscopic’ level experiments is that most possible observations of the human species have been made before, and made better than psychologists could manage.
]]>By: Raimo J Laasonenhttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/06/psychology-narrowing-its-own-mind/#comment-8702
Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:35:20 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-8702To whom it concerns,
I think Paul Rozin is in the right trace because exaggeration of the so called experimental methods lead to alienation from daily life. Plain finding of covariation is not much,and dependencies do not convert into causalities.
Covariation is just covariation. On the other hand, persons are not cultivation squares wherefrom many of the methods originate. Last but not least: What are the quantities Scientific Psychology deals with? Maybe, they are mental velocity, force, and mass. Cordially,
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Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:02:34 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13113#comment-8694Interesting post, thanks.
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